What style are we all using?

NOTE: Make sure all your styles have different display orders (only if they are in the same grouping). For instance, don't have 2 styles each with the display order of '1' otherwise this hack will just show 'Style: ' and no style shown.

This hack will show each users current selected style when viewing a post.
If you want to see how this looks, take a look at the screenshot attached.

The style system is a little more complex than the vBulletin 2 one, but it's still pretty simple and straightforward.

My apologies if this has already been released! I must also note that all of this code is original, meaning I made it all myself, I didn't look at someone else's code if anyone was wondering, so that we don't play the 'blame game' later on.

NOTE: For those who are wondering, this hack adds NO EXTRA QUERIES to your pages! Meaning the load and processing time are about the same as usual, they don't change much

Okay anyhow, here we go:

Instructions

Open includes/functions_showthread.php and find

PHP Code:

    static $gotrank, $sigcache, $sigperms, $gotage, $month, $day, $year, $counter; 


Above, add:

PHP Code:

    global $stylechoosercache, $vbphrase; 


Find

PHP Code:

    eval('$retval = "' . fetch_template($maintemplatename) . '";'); 


Above add

PHP Code:

    // check what style the user is viewing
    if (!$post['styleid'])
    {
        $post['style'] = '(' . $vbphrase['not_specified'] . ')';
    }
    else
    {
        // loop thru the $stylechoosercache to see which style the user is using, has to loop thru a few times
        foreach ($stylechoosercache as $parentstyle)
        {
            foreach ($parentstyle as $innerstyleid)
            {
                if ($innerstyleid[0]['styleid'] == $post['styleid'])
                {
                    $post['style'] = '<a href="' . $vboptions['forumhome'] . '.php?' . $session['sessionurl'] . 'styleid=' . $post['styleid'] . '">' . $innerstyleid[0]['title'] . '</a>';
                    continue;
                }
            }    
        }
    } 


Open the postbit template (or postbit_legacy if you're using old-style postbits) and find

					<div>$post[icqicon] $post[aimicon] $post[msnicon] $post[yahooicon]</div>

Above, add

					<!-- user forum style -->
<div>$vbphrase[style]: <if condition="$post[style] == '$vbphrase[not_specified]'"><a href="$vboptions[forumhome].php?styleid=$vboptions[styleid]">Default Style</a><else />$post[style]</if></div>
					<!-- / user forum style -->

Now add the following phrase:

Phrase Type: GLOBAL

Title: not_specified
Text: not specified

Title: style
Text: Style

All done!

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by lazserus

This is working just like it was designed and I love it. I have one question, however. Is there a way to make is to that someone who uses "Forum Default" is not classified as "unspecified"? Say if the forum default style is called "Bob" and the standard user just uses the forum default -- is there some kind of if condition that could be put in place that would point it to whichever style is the forum default? I hope I'm making sense. So, if user Joe is using forum default the postbit would display "Bob" instead of unspecified.

Also, what does it mean if the Style: is blank? I apologize if this has all been mentioned before in this thread. I thought I read everything, I swear. :nervous:

Okay I have made some important changes to the hack now. What you suggested is now a default part of the hack.

Also, the Style: being blank is explained in first post (it's in red.)

[lazserus]

You are now a holy man in my book. That's so cool of you to do. I apologize for neglecting what you said in post #1, I hadn't read that one in a few days.

/me installs and clicks install

[lazserus]

This is kind of an addition to Barbeque's question about the color - is there a way to define the color? All my styles display it in red, but it doesn't show up as well in red with certain backgrounds.

[Gary King]

Originally Posted by lazserus

This is kind of an addition to Barbeque's question about the color - is there a way to define the color? All my styles display it in red, but it doesn't show up as well in red with certain backgrounds.

Display what in red?

[KamuiX]

Working beautifully for me, Gary. Awesome hack and easy to install, thanks!

*clicks install*

[lazserus]

Originally Posted by Gary W

Display what in red?

Sorry, I was a bit vague. The text output is red. While in the Dark Blue style on vB.org is yellow, all of my styles default to red.

So, what I'm asking is if there's a way to customize the color of the ./me text?

[Gary King]

Oh; that has nothing to do with this hack. Anyways, try asking in its appropriate support thread.

[Dan P.]

Ok..this is a stupid question but it's driving me crazy. Where is the Open includes/functions_showthread.php ? Is it in the template manager or on the server itself. I found a showthread.php on the server but that didn't have the text to replace in there and I couldn't find it in the template section.

[Gary King]

It's in the server, in the includes folder.

[Dan P.]

Thanks Gary, for the help and the hack.